The 40 best books of the century

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The 40 best books of the century
The 40 best books of the century
The Times recently created a list of books that it said were the 40 best novels of the last century. I discuss my thoughts and feelings about these titles. Click “Show More” for information and links.

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The Times 40 Best Books of the Century: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/best-books-21st-century-ranked-f98wbvdk9

22 classics to read in 2022: https://www.youtube.com/watch?vzzubPftOsLE

Books discussed and purchase links:

The sun also rises – Ernest Hemingway
https://tidd.ly/3CbPa3S

The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
https://tidd.ly/3QuSbjQ

Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter
https://tidd.ly/3w6WYjr

Lady Chatterley's Lover – DH Lawrence
https://tidd.ly/3AhcIjK

Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy
https://tidd.ly/3zZvldd

The Rye Catcher – JD Salinger
https://tidd.ly/3CaIO4C

Whatever – Edward St Aubyn
https://tidd.ly/3QL0YOj

Half a yellow sun – Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie
https://tidd.ly/3bqcIqv

The Death of the Heart – Elizabeth Bowen
https://tidd.ly/3JZ7jUj

Olive Kitteridge – Elizabeth Strout
https://tidd.ly/38BFEKL

The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
https://tidd.ly/3A1Du0C

Power and Glory – Graham Greene
https://tidd.ly/3AoFz8k

The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith
https://tidd.ly/3pl363B

Wolf Room – Hilary Mantel
https://tidd.ly/3wNu9rn

The Bell – Sylvia Plath
https://tidd.ly/3QJf4jp

The Color Purple – Alice Walker
https://tidd.ly/3Qvp93y

Atonement – Ian McEwan
https://tidd.ly/3w7TvAZ

A house for Mr. Biswas – VS Naipaul
https://tidd.ly/3AppeQP

The Blue Flower – Penelope Fitzgerald
https://tidd.ly/3jSqVxi

Lord of the Flies – William Golding
https://tidd.ly/3wtt5u5

Gilead – Marilynne Robinson
https://tidd.ly/3CeyatP

Shame – JM Coetzee
https://tidd.ly/3PrbgSP

The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
https://tidd.ly/38Zb7Xz

A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
https://tidd.ly/357SJcC

The remains of the day – Kazuo Ishiguro
https://tidd.ly/3MxAtKy

Never let me go – Kazuo Ishiguro
https://tidd.ly/3dnGxIU

Housekeeping – Marilynne Robinson
https://tidd.ly/3SSgOsi

A passage to India – EM Forster
https://tidd.ly/3pmwSFf

The Handmaid's Tale – Margaret Atwood
https://tidd.ly/3zYauH5

Giovanni's Room – James Baldwin
https://tidd.ly/3AmeO4u

Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
https://tidd.ly/3reHXXm

Things are falling apart – Chinua Achebe
https://tidd.ly/3QK3dBA

1984 – George Orwell
https://tidd.ly/3QO5yvu

At the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
https://tidd.ly/3QKEehn

Lolita-Vladimir Nabokov
https://tidd.ly/3Qrmrwc

Beloved – Toni Morrison
https://tidd.ly/3bSi4LH

Miss Jean Brodie's Prime Minister – Muriel Spark
https://tidd.ly/3Qujafl

Midnight's Children – Salman Rushdie
https://tidd.ly/3polHfc

Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
https://tidd.ly/3k7aIDt

The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
https://tidd.ly/3k3ZhMR

My reviews of some of these books:

Lady Chatterley's Lover – DH Lawrence
https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2021/10/6/lady-chatterleys-lover-by-dh-lawrence-1

Wolf Room – Hilary Mantel
https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2020/2/28/wolf-hall-by-hilary-mantel

Lord of the Flies – William Golding
https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2014/6/23/lord-of-the-flies-by-william-golding

The Handmaid's Tale – Margaret Atwood
https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2019/8/28/the-handmaids-tale-by-margaret-atwood

Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2016/9/14/wide-sargasso-sea-by-jean-rhys

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